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WVILLIAM L. NYE, OF AKRON, OHIO.

MATCH-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,217, dated April 18, 1899.

Application filed February 8, 1899. Serial No. 704,896. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM L. NYE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Match-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in that class of match-machines in which blocks of wood are progressively fed along a trough diagonally to'vertically-reciprocating cutters that cut away, from the projecting edge of the wood, match-sticks, which sticks are, by means of a horizontally-moving abutment-plate carried by the head that bears the cutters, forced into holes in a plate commonly termed a sticking-plate, by which they are handled in the dipping process, and it is an improvement on the device for which Patent No. 553,888 was granted to Edwin J. Young on February 4:, 1896.

The object of my invention is to provide new and improved devices for reciprocally actuating the abutmentblock under the cutter-knives.

To the aforesaid objects my invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described and then specifically pointed out in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar reference-n umerals indicate like parts in the different views, Figure 1 is an elevation of my machine, the central part being broken away at the line 2 z of Fig. 2 to permit of the two portions containing the operative mechanism to be shown; Fig. 2, a section of Fig. 1 at the line 00; Fig. 3, a detached enlarged portion of the apparatus,

' showing the devices for operating the abutinent-block; Fig. 4, an enlarged front view of a part of Fig. 3, and Fig. a sectional view of Fig. 4: at the line y y of Fig. 3.

Referring to the figures, 1 is the stocktrough, supported on suitable supports 2 and situated diagonally to the part of the apparatus containing the cutter-head. In this trough the blocks are fed, urged forward by a cross-block 3, to which is attached a cord 4, that passes over a pulley 5 and bears a weight 6. Journaled in the supporting-frame of the trough 1 are two parallel shafts 7 S, 011 the front of which, 7, is fastened a lever 9, to the upper end of which is pivotally connected a feed-dog 10. On the shaft 8 is an arm 11, pivotally connected with the feed-dog 10 bya link. On the opposite ends of the shafts 7 8 are two similar levers 13 14:, that extend downward, with their ends provided with fricti0n-' rollers that run in similar camgrooves in the wheels 15 16, mounted on the shaft 17, journaled in the supports 2, and driven by the pulley 18.

It will be obvious that as the levers 7 8 are rocked forward the dog 10 will be raised and drawn backward, and at its front end by the opposite movement the lower toothed end will fall to engage the wood blocks and it will be forced forward, thus progressively feeding the blocks toward the cutting-tool.

The shaft 17 bears a bevel-gear 19, that meshes in a bevel-gear 20 on a shaft 21, journaled in supports 22 0f the cutter-frame. This shaft 21 has a central crank-wrist 23, supported between two disk-heads and on which is journaled one end of apitman 24. The opposite-end of the pitman grasps the wrist of a cross-head 25, that slides in ways 26 and bears the cutter-head 27, on which are mounted the cutters 28, each adjustably retained by a pin 29 and clamped in place by a bar 30, held by bolts 31. This cutter-head moves reciprocally in front of the stocktrough 1, the end of which is shown in section in Fig. 2 andbeneath which is a box 32,adapted to be connected with a fan or other means for producing a blast and having a narrow opening toward the cutter-head for the air to issue and drive away (lust and particles of wood. In the edge of this box and in alinement with the cutters are a number of blunt points 33 to engage the ends of the matchsplints to force them into the sticking-plates.

Depending from the front of the cutterhead 27 is a rigid plate or apron 34 to form a guard to prevent the shorter blocks falling inward as the knives pass upward. The cutter-head (shown in detail in Figs; 3, 4, and 5) consists of a bar 35, having in its upper face channels divided by integral partitions 36, between which the cutters 28 rest and in which they are clamped by the bar 30, that has an intermediate opening to cover both. In each end of this bar are dovetailed ways 37, in which slide two parallel bars 38, one on each side, secured by beveled strips 39. The upper front ends of these bars 38 are re cessed, and in them is secured a bar 40, extending across under and against the cutters. Each bar 38 is constantly drawn backward by a spring 41, anchored to a post in the cutter-head, 2 and 3, and is provided with a box 42, in which rests the shorter arm of a bell-crank lever 43, which levers are pivotally mounted in supports 44. The longer arms of these levers 43 rest between posts 45, connected with the inside of the maehine-frame and held from lateral escape by a cross-bar between said posts.

As the cutter-head descends the plate is normally drawn backward from beneath the cutters by the spring 41, which movement is insured by the long arm of the bell-crank lever encountering the lower post 45, and as it rises the plate is forced forward under the cutters to form an abutment to force the splints into the sticking-plate 4b. This sticking-plate is of the ordinary construction and slides in ways 47, Fig. 2. To move this progressively forward, one or more bars 48 are mounted in guides 49 and are reciprocally moved endwise by a link 50, pivot-ally connected with one end of a lever 51, mounted on a shaft 52, journaled in the frame, the opposite end being moved by a connecting-rod 53 from an eccentric 54 on the shaft 21.

The bars 48 bear pawls 55, arranged to engage the holes in the sticking-plate.

To insure resistance for the sticking-plate at the moment it receives the thrust of the match-sticks, a cross-bar 56, having its ends arranged to slide in vertically-slotted guides 57, has wrists held by the upper ends of con meeting-rods 58, extending from eccentrics 59 on the shaft 21, set opposite the crank-wrist 23, so that the bar 56 will descend as the cutter-head rises.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a match-machine of the kind designated the combination with the cutter-head and knives fastened therein and adapted to have ILLIAR'I L. NYE.

In presence of- C. P. HUMPHREY,. (J. E. HUMPHREY. 

